ML19210C281

Discusses Previously Submitted Petition to Intervene. Explains Various Contentions.Intends to Present Documentation Showing Inadequacy of Emergency Evacuation, Waste Disposal & Radiation Monitoring

ML19210C281
Person / Time
Site:	Three Mile Island
Issue date:	09/24/1979
From:	Berryhill F COALITION FOR NUCLEAR POWER PLANT POSTPONEMENT
To:	Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
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ML19210C282	List: ML19210C281 ML19210C286
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NUDOCS 7911140030
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Gentlemen: N I live aperoximately 50 miles frc Three 1:ile ::s1=nd and was therefore deaply involved in the situa-icn pertainir.; 0 the 2cciden'. at T:: 2. On March 28th several hours before the news was released to the public I was contacted by the news media and informed of the content of the wires coming in concerning ,the*occurance" at TMI 2. It was ictediately apparent to me that M accident situation existed. By 8:30 AM I contacted the Delaware State Civil Defence Office to make sure they had been informed. My next call was to State Senator Harris McDowell, head of the Senate Energy Committee to urge him to establish contacts outside the state for whatever information was available. This contact was caintained through-out the crisis. By the time the news was released to the public ny telephone never s:00.:ed rin;.:ing, incoming calls continued through the nif.ts.

1799 096 As chairman of CI FF, tith a Tailing l'3 Of 9,XO pecple I served as a 37:bcl. F.undreds of pecple used the fact tha:

• I was still in tcund as a paideline for their decision to sta:f. It became appar3r;; to me that I uculi have to sta:/

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2-a panic in order to avoid reg'.rdless of my personal feelings my information was as ambigu my sit"ation for many families. Sincelf the responsibill:7 of as tha; of the commission itse the mental anguish, the loss ity position was awsone. The tension,cy to shculler such responsibil of sleep and the feeling of inadequa be easy to understand herefera was taking its toll. It should t t a petition to intervene my resentment that I must now presen d"beaurocratese" without le*guage of " legalese" an . , o.cc .. s.

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dressed in tra of an Attorney and Secretary

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has the " benefit" the affairs of their well informed from participation in i they perceive these Government, no matter how life threathen ng affairs to be. .

i tices set forth in The Comnission is well aware of the impl cathe matter in de my petition and I saw no need to pursue Contention 1) Eevision of table) written S-3 on this I am enclosing copy of my letter (5 pages 1979 matter on another docket, June 19, l d for April E af ter T7:I 2 Contention 2) Safety hearincs schedu e ha.s baen licensed to operste. a valid, accepted ce nten; ion by The Commission knows th'.: an erasure in my petition

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the plant has been intervenors was scheduled to be heard after licensed to operate. It is my- intention to point out the .

uselessnes of unfunded, overwerked internevors to invcive t>emselves in a process , s. process where the cards are stacked, was my intention and to assertain what rules if ar" were broken. I to ask the question so eloquently asked by the intervenor before the Ecuse Interior and Insular Affairs 5ubccamittee on Energy and the Environent on June 51979:

"'de must nou ask what justific'. icn there con be, under either NEPA or the Atomic Energy Act, for this adminis:ra:ive appreval procedure which allows a major federe.1 action--

the 2* cense to operate--prior to comletion of review of the issues which, in one environnentEL instance, may decisively tip the cost benefit analysis against the reactor and, in the other r ma.7 equally decisively determine that the safety-related risk is too great to perLit operation."

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Contention 3) . Violation of NEPA It is my intention to show that until table S-3 is revised or NUREG-0511 is either legislatively or administratively re-solved, there can be no justification for further licensing TMI 1 or any other nuclear power plant. The question of the relationship of the Commissions admission that the health ef'ects from Radon 222 were underestimated by a factor of 100,000 and NEPA remains.

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ntention h). Ocnsideration of Class 9 On August 26,1979 in a lanitark iscision the concissi:n ieclared TMI 2 to be class 9 accident. Docket .;c. 50272 In the matter of Public Service Electric L Sas 00. Salen :!uclear Generatin-;

Facility Station, 'Jnit 1. Prcposed Issuance of Aceniment ::

_h Opera"ing License No.D?2-70. Therefore, class 9 rast be introduced w

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wac ny intencion to present docucencatien that Energency Ivscuation,

'laste Disposal and Radiatien .ionitoring are woefully iradequate.

Most impcrtantly however, I would like this Cc-nission te

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A.3ridford on Aupst 2,1979 before the NAEUC An.ual Repla: cry Studies Progran .in East Lansing, Michigan. It is by far the finest and cost comprehensive speech ever to come from a Commissione It rernins to be seen if these remarks are heeded or stand as just-another composition of worthless rheteric.

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s remarks made by one writer cskin os limited appearance in which he expressed concern over the contunities ability to he.ndle the civil disruptions uhich air;ht cccur af ter licensing of IF.! 1.

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